THE PROBLEM OF TEACHING READING AND TRANSLATING LEGAL TEXTS

The development of legal linguistics, interaction between linguistics and law necessitates the improvement of professional training of future lawyers. In this regard, working with legal texts is of particular importance. Looking for information in the vast stream of foreign literature requires good reading skills of a specialist. The article proves the necessity for knowledge of phonetic transcription, the rules of pronunciation, ability to work with a dictionary, ability to pronounce words correctly, since they are the basis for work with a text. The author considers the ways to achieve understanding of the content of a foreign text. For the successful translation of a text of legal nature it is not enough to know the terminology of varying legal subjects. It is necessary to apply the knowledge in special and general legal subjects as a basis for semantic and linguistic guesses. The author focuses on the inability to perform adequate translation without knowledge of lexical and grammatical peculiarities of translation techniques, because when translating from one language into another it is often about restructuring proposals, that is, changing the order of words, that is due to a number of causes of lexical and grammatical nature, for example, the nuclear of the statement. The author discusses the difficulty of translating attribute combinations, which represent a serious problem, since in most cases they also require changing the word order. The author focuses on teaching translation of the names of organizations or agencies that do not appear in the references and how to translate them into the Russian language. In this regard, it is necessary to study lexical correspondences, terminology denoting 'unknown Russian realities of legal practice', legal terms lacking equivalents, idioms enriching legal texts and creating figurativeness and general stylistics of the original text. It is shown that teaching law students to work with a text requires of a teacher special knowledge in the respective field of law, possession of special knowledge of vocabulary and the use of foreign legal terminology in a particular context.

professional education, legal text, types of reading, inversion, lexical correspondences, lacking equivalents, attributive phrase, adequate translation, legal terminology

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